Bobbi Muscara Bio
Short Personal Bio
Barbara (Bobbi) Muscara is a current Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee member, the founder of Ledger Academy and Chair of the Hyperledger Learning Materials and Development Working Group. Ledger Academy is a Blockchain Education Company that supplies custom Learning Materials to clients interested in Blockchain Education programs, a recent client includes the Linus Foundation. Ledger Academy sponsors (3) Blockchain Meetup Groups with a combined membership of over 1800, this includes the Hyperledger Princeton Meetup group. Ledger Academy also sponsors startups in the blockchain space. A few of the most noteworthy include BCEMPLOY, The Giving Chain, Ledger Consulting, and GoNFTYou.
A current active participant in the Hyperledger community since 2018, she is currently on the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee, Chair of the Learning Materials Working Group, and an active contributor to the Public Sector, Social Impact, Climate Action Special Interest Groups. Bobbi has been a presenter at the Hyperledger Global Forum in both 2020 and in 2021. The work she has done for the Social Impact Special Interest Group led her to develop a Blockchain for Social Impact curriculum that directs the learner in the process of building a blockchain project to benefit local communities. The Giving Chain project is the result.
The Giving Chain
The Giving Chain project, a blockchain initiative to reallocate wealth with an accessible, decentralized charity giving platform and the (D2R) donor to recipient application. The Giving Chain in 2019 successfully collected and distributed 100 plus "Giving Bags" of food to local food insecure individuals and area food banks, The project won recognition from The Government Blockchain Association (GBA) 2020 award program. The Giving Chain is a sponsored Linux Foundation Mentorship project for 2021 and Bobbi is the Mentor. The Giving Chain's current projects are Project Princeton, Project Uttarakhand, and Project India Women. The first two will gather excess farm produce in India and NJ and redistribute to Foodbanks and Flood victims. of India. Project Women India is creating distribution channels for hygiene products to be delivered to Rural parts of India.